What probably matters to youSection of the release
What
A settings key accepting 60s, 5m, 10m or never sets how long a permission or user dialog forwarded to a remote client stays parked awaiting an answer, and how long a held cross-session message waits for approval, before it resolves to its safe default. Without the setting the timeout is 300000 ms (5 minutes). CLAUDE_CODE_USER_DIALOG_TIMEOUT_MS overrides both.
Details
The setting is read from trusted configuration sources only.
Prompts answered locally are unaffected; this only applies to dialogs sent to a remote client.
Usage
{ "dialogExpiry": "10m" }
Evidence
Max time a permission/user dialog forwarded to a remote client stays parked awaiting an answer
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
Two sources agreeTwo things we can check say the same as this entry.
Anthropic's release notes agreeAdded crossSessionInbound and dialogExpiry settings: cross-session messages sent to a session running with bypassed permissions are held for…
The name it cites is new in this buildNew in this build: dialogExpiry
